Odd Errors

[Aaron "Castironpi" Brady]

On Oct 2, 12:52 am, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l... at geek-
central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
> In message <pan.2008.10.01.09.44... at REMOVE.THIS.cybersource.com.au>, Steven
>
> D'Aprano wrote:
> > On Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:14:49 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
> >> In message
> >> <1b1ed34d-f386-4389-a7f1-ce68be4e2... at k30g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
> >> Aaron "Castironpi" Brady wrote:
>
> >>> Do you ever want to scream from the rooftops, "'append' operates by
> >>> side-effect!"?
>
> >> No. It's an effect, not a side-effect.
>
> > "Side-effect" has the technical meaning in functional languages of any
> > change of state that isn't the creation and return of a function result.
>
> "Side" means that it happens as the by-product of returning a function
> result. "<list>.append" isn't a function, it's a procedure. Hence the
> modification of the list is the primary effect, not a side effect.

I was using the technical definition from functional languages, not
the literal "per word" definition.  Maybe the FL crowd chose their
words poorly, who knows?